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I’m read by Antonio Neves’ post Can
School Make You a Better Entrepreneur? on
Entrepreneur.com yesterday. Antonio does a good job giving a
balanced view of that very interesting question, and he
asks bonified smart person Chris Guillebeau too, which is always
a good idea.

Chris gets the best quote in the piece:

‘You might as well learn as much as you can from as many sources
as you can,’ says entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau, author of the
New York Times best-seller The $100 Startup. ‘Experience may
indeed be the best teacher, but you can certainly supplement that
education with more traditional or nontraditional kinds.’

That’s smart. There are some dumb quotes in that piece, but Chris
is right on. Absolutes don’t make sense. The right answer is not
yes, or no, but rather, “it depends.”

I’m just one data point, but in my case I’m 100% certain that I
could not have managed my successes in entrepreneurship without
the MBA degree that turned me, at age 33, from business writer to
business doer. But I’m also certain that lots of successful
people did it without the luxury of education.

My opinion: if you don’t have the time, or the money, you can do
without business education. If you get caught up in success so
quickly that you don’t have time for business education, then
don’t worry, you’re already getting it where you are. And if you
have the luxury to have a choice, get a real education — math
science, liberal arts — first, and then add business training
later.